Critical Thinking Dimensions and Skills
Like all other professionals, in nursing, the practitioners ought to apply evidence-based practices (EBP). The above-mentioned practices are supposed to be integrated into the following components while making decisions: the most viable external evidence, the practitioner’s expertise, and what the patient prefers. More importantly, the professionals are expected to abide by set dimensions and skills of critical thinking such as intellectual integrity and transforming knowledge. The quality of a service is dependent on an array of factors such as intellectual integrity dimension. Research provides the most reliable information on the chances of a specific approach working. As such, this leads to the development of ideal approaches that ought to be followed by all medical practitioners unless circumstances dictate otherwise. Consequently, all nurses are expected to align their services with the most current evidence (knowledge) (The Impact of Evidence-Based Practice in Nursing and the Next Big Ideas). For example, according to research, there exist significant barriers in applying to employ evidence-based practices, nonetheless, intellectual integrity calls for discipline in adherence to the best practices to make the best decision.
Knowledge transformation encompasses the application of the facts and rules learned in class or practice. The medical field is dynamic based on the emergence of better practices based on research (Ellis, 2019). Hence, nurses are expected to transform all the new concepts learned in case of a new process. This is a fundamental critical thinking skill since it involves customization of the new knowledge in the diagnosis and prognosis process thereby aiding in the improvement of the quality of services provided. The non-maleficence principles of healthcare ethics outline that all health care practitioners ought not to inflict harm to their patients during the treatment process. As such, in the knowledge transformation process, the nurses must ensure that they abide by the aforementioned principle. Case in point, nurses ought to follow the evidence-based practice step by step in administering oxygen to the patients with COPD (Ellis, 2019). Moreover, as a critical thinking skill, nurses ought to apply the practice appropriately irrespective of the circumstances. Hence, the importance of skill among health care practitioners.
References
The Impact of Evidence-Based Practice in Nursing and the Next Big Ideas, ojin.nursingworld.org/MainMenuCategories/ANAMarketplace/ANAPeriodicals/OJIN/TableofContents/Vol-18-2013/No2-May-2013/Impact-of-Evidence-Based-Practice.html.
Ellis, P. (2019). Evidence-based practice in nursing. Learning Matters.